Estelle Shane's research while affiliated with Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and other places
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Publications (21)
This essay responds to Steven Barrie-Anthony’s article in this issue (“The Sacralization of the Intimate Edge: Heeding Spirituality’s Call for Mutual Experience within Clinical Work”). Dr. Barrie-Anthony’s paper moved me to listen for and attend to the spiritual experience of my patients and also to explore these realms in my own life. Before readi...
Estelle Shane is a distinguished psychoanalyst, who has honored, served, and contributed to the profession. During my training and early years as an analyst, she was my teacher and mentor, and over time she has become my close colleague and friend. I admire and love her balanced temperament, her ever growing mind and heart, her genuine kindness and...
We express our deep appreciation to our three commentators, William Coburn, Jill Gardner, and Judy Teicholz, recognizing the value we gained by each of them reading our paper closely and respectfully, and responding accordingly. We begin with William Coburn, who saw our efforts as the latest move in the evolution of the complex system we call Self...
This article describes the evolution of a critical dimension of self psychology that has evolved since Heinz Kohut’s death, one characterized by the transition from a one-person to a two-person psychology. This transition involved, initially, the change in the analyst’s role as limited to interpreting the patient’s intrapsychically generated selfob...
In my introduction to these three papers on the experience of aging, I begin with my observations on aging in the 9th Stage of Life (a stage added by Erik Erickson in 1984, when he himself was nearing death) by talking about my own aging, 87-year-old husband whose end of life included changes in himself that no one who knew him, including himself,...
The expansiveness of relational self psychology is described first in terms of its origins in Kohut’s self psychology. Then the alterations in Kohut’s original formulations are articulated with their clinical relevance explained. Further, relational self psychology’s expansion to include relationality is discussed. Finally, the theory’s capacity to...
Heinz Kohut insisted that, strictly speaking, the selfobject was an experience provided by the analyst’s function, not a person. However, in light of an increasing body of mother-infant research into the bidirectionality of experience at all levels of development, and the consistent with the relational turn in self psychology, which emphasizes the...
In my review of this panel, I focus principally on the deep importance of Roger Frie and Ilene Philipson’s articles, both to the growth and expansion of self psychology as a perspective of great relevance to the field of psychoanalysis, and to our understanding of Heinz Kohut as a man and as a theorist. These articles are significant not only in an...
Self psychology has evolved beyond Kohut’s original one person psychology into a two person intersubjective theory that we propose can now be best understood as belonging to, and developing through interaction with, the broad spectrum of theories that come under the umbrella of Relationality, which are characterized by some form of bi-directionalit...
In this review of Stephen Seligman’s contribution to the literature on disorders of temporality, the patient’s ordinary and extraordinary experiences of time in the clinical situation, the reviewer provides both theoretical confirmation and clinical illustration in support of the author’s arguments. Infant research, nonlinear dynamic systems theory...
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... Heinz Kohut (1971; provided a remarkable new perspective on narcissistic disorders, much of which has been extensively discussed elsewhere and recently updated with contemporary relational approaches (Mollon, 2002;Shane & Carr, 2021;Riker, 2022). One of his key and explicit formulations was that narcissism follows its own paths of development, from primitive or infantile, to more mature. ...
Reference: The Imaginary Self and the Mother's Desire
... Relational psychoanalysis is a contemporary and evolving school of psychoanalytic thought, considered by its founders to represent a paradigm shift in psychoanalysis (Hoffman, 2014). Relational theory was born from a synthesis of American interpersonal theory (Stern, 2019), the various insights of self-psychology (Magid et al., 2021), British object relations theory, and neo-Kleinian thought (Aron, 2013). A basic credo of relational theory, the one we also take in this study, is the understanding of the clinical situation in terms of a 'two-person psychology', as compared to mainstream psychoanalytic theory, criticized as being rooted in a 'one-person psychology' (Davies, 2018). ...
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... The importance of empathy in supportive parenting is well known (Manczak et al., 2016). Empathy is defined as a modality that allows the other person to feel genuinely understood (Magid & Shane, 2017). Davis (2004) treats empathy as a construct encompassing four cognitive and emotional dimensions: perspective taking (an ability to spontaneously adopt the perspectives of other people), fantasy (a tendency to identify with characters in fictional situations), empathic concern (feelings of warmth, compassion, and concern for others), and personal distress (personal feelings of anxious, discomfort and helpless at tense emotional situations, e.g., emergencies). ...
